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Although defense attorneys spent much of last week crowing about the tapes, how they obtained them is another tale altogether. McKinny, who along with her husband Daniel teaches at the North Carolina School of the Arts, insisted to PrimeTime Live last week that she has no idea how the defense found its way to her, and her lawyer concurs. As F. Lee Bailey tells it, he learned of the tapes last month through a call from a lawyer who gave him McKinny's first name and telephone number; defense investigator Patrick McKenna took it from there. McKenna says he dialed...
Although McKinny appeared to be fighting hard to keep the tapes out of the Simpson trial, losing that battle earlier this month in the North Carolina courts, her motives, like those of so many people connected to this case, may not be entirely unselfish. She told PrimeTime Live that the tapes are not for sale, yet Michael Viner, owner of Dove Audio Inc., which has published a number of books about the Simpson case, says he was approached about buying them, but the price was prohibitive. Sources at the television show EXTRA, the National Enquirer and the tabloid Globe also...
Back with her parents now in Powdersville, South Carolina, Faulkner says she won't return to the Citadel and has no regrets about her quick exit: "I'd rather walk out than be carried out." There were times when she thought it might come to that. Early Saturday morning, Faulkner and her parents had driven to the Citadel from a Charleston hotel nearby. Because of death threats, she was escorted by federal marshals who checked out the campus and its approaches before the Faulkners entered by way of the school's back gate...
Just four days afterShannon Faulknerleft the Citadel to jeers from her male classmates, another woman is planning a bid to enter the exclusive club. "A Citadel degree has a certain cachet in South Carolina," says TIME's Lisa Towle. "It provides a very easy entry into certain jobs and there's a huge network, a power core of Citadel men in state society." The woman's identity will remain secret until Wednesday, when attorneys add her name to Faulkner's suit to join the all-male cadet program.Faulkner's lawyerstell Towle that two other young women had expressed interest...
...Hillary Clinton outlawed it in the White House, forcing chastened inhalers onto the lawn. The Democratic House Speaker Thomas Foley prohibited smoking in public areas on the House side of the Capitol. A joke circulated on Capitol Hill that smoking was welcome only in the offices of the North Carolina congressional delegation...